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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 2019 08:49:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "Conrad E. Meyer" <cem@freebsd.org>, Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r351643 - in head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/dtrace/test/tst/common: dtraceUtil speculation
Message-ID:  <201909021549.x82FndM9009860@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <FFB0A7EC-43FF-4012-9344-0F3A191BB4FA@gmail.com>

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> > On Aug 31, 2019, at 16:29, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 5:29 PM Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> Thanks Li-Wen!  Might it be less fragile to have the test fixture
> >> create a file, if the test(s) will expect one to be present to read?
> > 
> > Or just use the realpath $0, which you know has to exist :)
> 
> I don?t know if this would work, with other some of the dtrace tests are called. Plus, that relies on a FreeBSD utility which doesn?t necessarily exist on Linux and I don?t think exists on IllumOS.
> 
> It makes more sense to create a file with mktemp and test for it in the loop to make the tests portable over to IllumOS, since that?s where they originally came from and can be contributed back to.

Agreed, especially if these tests are expected to be portable the
assumption of existance of /COPYRIGHT is a mistake/bug.

> Thanks,
> -Enji
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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